Customer Reviews

A Project Chick (Nikki Turner Original)

5 star:		(47)
4 star:		(28)
3 star:		(13)
2 star:		(17)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

Nikki....I can't believe you let these books out of the house (Hustler's Wife & Project Chick).

As a native Richmonder, it was great to read about my home city. It made me smile (and reminisce) when the author referenced certain streets and areas....they actually exist! The storyline was so-so, not really all that believeable but it was OK. In the THANK YOU section, the author actually thanks the editors. What for? This book was so littered with mistakes, I find it hard to believe that it was edited at all. These (many, many) errors actually de-value the entire book. Miss Turner, you have a huge audience, please respect and appreciate our intelligence and support of your work.....INVEST IN PROFESSIONAL EDITORS. Anything less is a direct reflection on you. As for the comments stating that it's the printer's fault....the printer will print what they have been given. It's not the printer's responsibility to correct mistakes, it's the author's and editor's job. The author ultimately gives the last OK for the final print.....typos, errors, and all. My advice to you Nikki.....read YOUR book before sending it to the printer.

Everyone knows there is always a lot of pressure when putting out a second book, CD, etc., when the first one did so well. That being said, I have to applaud Nikki Turner for a job well done. Nikki is obviously a writer with great talent and insight into her characters and the community she is writing about. I commend her for bringing their stories to the forefront. A Project Chick is clearly one such story. I just finished the book and thought it was an intelligent approach to a street story. No one else has "represented" for the single moms the way that she has done in this book. Clearly, Nikki Turner writes directly to her audience, which are people from the hood and not corporate boardrooms. That is what makes her writing so good, she can relate to her readers. The book moves at a steady pace but the end was well worth the ride. This book is funny as hell and it's the kind you can easily read on your commute or right before you go to bed. I'm proud to know that such a young author is taking a risk by writing this kind of material and doing a damn good job. What the other two reviewers missed in the editing of the book is that the vocabulary has a street/slang/ebonic flow. The characters are not going to sound like they were raised in a white suburb. Even though it may have appeared to be bad editing, Nikki was keeping the vernacular true to the characters. I can't wait for the third novel and whatever else she writes because I know it will be good.

This book is for you. It was written specifically for you and about you. I don't know who else that can relate to this garbage! The plot was BLAH, the characters were BLAH, and the editing was BLAH BLAH BLAH and BLAH. I think at one point the author forgot whether she was writing in first person or third! My God! NIKKI, baby do you have your stuff edited? I wish I knew someone I could refer you to because your publishing company is just throwing you in the fire with gasoline underwear on!!!!!!!!!!

I know a lot of people are not going to like this, but I am still not feeling Nikki Turner as an author. For ghetto fiction she writes too many unbelievable story lines.

A Project Chick had me in the beginning with her struggle, but as the book went on I was like oh my god this is crazy. I guess that's why its called fiction.

Later!!!

i loved this book. i read it in like 8hrs. there was never a dull moment. some of the things she went through might be almost unbelievable to people who have been luckily enough not to deal with verbal/mental abuse from a 'babydaddy' but those who have know this is a story that can very well be true.

A definite read!!!! i love how she shows Tressa's trial & tribulations so she has to learn to be a stronger person & that money doesn't always make you happy.

THIS WAS ONE OF THOSE BOOKS THAT HAD U HOOKED FROM THE BEGINNING. NIKKI TURNER OUT DID HERSELF THIS TIME AS SHE DOES ALWAYS. THE ONLY THING I REALLY CANT STAND ABOUT THESE BOOKS IS THE TYPOS. U GET INTO THE BOOK THEN A TYPO CAN THROW U OFF. THE ONE THING I WANT FOR TRIPLE CROWN TO DO IS RE-EDIT UR BOOKS SO THEY CAN BE RIGHT, OTHER THAN THAT THE BOOKS IS THE BOMB. I KINDA CAN RELATE TO TRESSA IN THIS BOOK BECAUSE SHE HAS ALL THESE STRUGGLES BUT OTHER PEOPLE LOOKIN FROM THE OUTSIDE IN WOULDNT THINK SHE WAS STRUGGLIN. I KNOW ALL ABOUT THAT. TRESSA HELD IT DOWN THOUGH. ANYBODY THAT HASNT READ IT, U NEED TO RENT IT OR GO OUT AND GET THIS BOOK.

I must admit I was totally feeling the book for the first half. Then the other half she got all unrealistic and it really did make sense how it ended one moment she said lucky lights went out and the next he was in the story alive.Some scenes were redundant and absurd and to me she was lucky that they even published the book sorry but I was a fan of your first book but the second one was a great dissapointment TRY AGAIN

I really enjoy Nikki work, but Project Chick wasn't the best.
Who ever did the editing need to be fired! I understand doing the street lango, but getting the charcters wrong in the book was the worst. Saying that a charcter was speaking when they died chapters before was a let down!

I'd like to show Nikki Turner some love for her new book, but I can't get through it. I have to agree with all the other reviewers who slammed on Nikki for the editing. It's not that hard to get it right. I can't get more than a few pages in before I have to set the thing down. Nikki, you can keep it real without making the book sound like a 14 year old who never took an English class wrote it.

This Author shows no growth between her previous book and this one, in fact, she declines. I gave the last one two stars for entertainment value, but this one was straight up stupid. There was nothing real about it except for the fact that the main character is triffling (Although the author does not seem to think so). Nikki Turner seems to think that women who mess with hustlers and hustle themselves in any kind of way, including prostituion, deserve to be on some kind of pedestal. The publisher also has not shown any kind of growth, or hired a decent proof reader to catch the horrible spelling and editing mistakes. These books must be typed on the typewriter, what other excuse is there for not using SPELLCHECK? The story line is all over the place, there is just nothing real about it. Keep trying Nikki. I don't recommend buying this book. You can have my copy for free.